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Inside GAC

Published by Rafeeque B Muhammad on Tuesday, August 6, 2013 12:00 AM
Updated on Tuesday, August 6, 2013 12:00 AM


 

How to see the GAC folder

Go to Run menu and type assembly.

You will see the actual assembly directory lists; it doesn’t look same as other explorer window. The actual location of GAC is C:\Windows\Assembly; here C: is the operating system drive.

 

 

How to find/get the underlying files in the GAC?

You can find all the files from the GAC_MSIL folder.

1.       Got the command windows (run cmd)

2.       Got to the C:\windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL (cd C:\windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL)

               

3.       Type dir you can see all the contents.

4.       Now we can verify one of the assembly which has multiple version.

5.       In my GAC here I have two different versioned assemblies for Debugger.Runtime

6.       Check the same folder in the command line and verify. Type cd Microsoft.VisualStudio.Debugger.Runtime

7.       There two folders inside for each version. Go into that folder and see the dll.

8.       Also now you can copy file into somewhere else.

Copy c:\Windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Debugger.Runtime\10.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\ F:

 

9.       If you try the same directory in the windows explorer it won’t show, gives you the below error in windows 7.

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